Blog Central Survey Part 1

Thank you to everyone that took time to fill out the AllEars® Blog Central Survey! We closed the survey at 1000 responses. To the over 700 of you that entered your email addresses for the All Ears goody bag, we are in the midst of contacting you.

Mike Scopa and I discussed the results in length and want to share some of your comments.

So here goes….

We asked some general Disney questions including these:

What is your favorite Walt Disney World theme park?

By far you chose the Magic Kingdom as #1, followed by Epcot #2 and then the Disney MGM Studios and Animal Kingdom were a distant 3rd and 4th.

When was your first visit to Walt Disney World?

About 80% of you chose the 1973-1999 time frame, with the majority visiting for the first time between 1980-1989!

Then to questions about blogs like these:

How familar are you with blogs?
The overwhelming majority were familiar with blogs.

We asked you to list your 5 favorite blogs and actually learned about a few really good ones ourselves!

Now specifically onto the All Ears Blogs.

Navigation! — One of the main things we wanted to learn from the survey was about our navigation! Can you find the blogs easiliy? Is the navigation easy? etc.

COMMENT: You shouldn’t have to do so much scrolling on the Blog Central Page to get to the lists of current blogs

DEB: You are correct. We set it up that way in the beginning so that folks unfamiliar with our bloggers could read a little about them before heading to their blogs. We will be modifying that page for easier navigation in the near future.

COMMENT: I find it confusing that if I click on one blog entry on the Blog Central page I get only this one blog entry and not all of them in their chronological order. I am never sure how to get to the page with all the entries of one particular blogger.

COMMENT: Your link to Blog Central does not appear in all the headers of the website.

DEB: We have begun work on these navigation suggestions.

COMMENT: I’d welcome a single, consolidated option to read everyone’s blog postings — a “mega blog” with an easy URL that combines the posts from all of the individual blogs….. It’s easier to skip over a blog posting that doesn’t interest me, than it is to navigate to all the individual pages that do.

DEB: Actually, this is something we have planned for later this year. Our blog software is currently beta-testing the next version. It has some great new features including the ability to combine all the blog post listings in one place. So, look for it in a few months.

We asked what topics you’d like to see?
Theme parks were favorite followed closely by Dining, Resorts and Special Events. In addition, you offered some other suggestions:

**It would be fun to follow someone through the process they go through to set up a Disney vacation.
** More peeks at the “method behind the magic”
** More DLR and some info from DLP, TDR and HKDL (maybe by guest bloggers?) We visit WDW mainly but I love info on the other parks.
** More about park happenings and how current things being made or are under construction are coming along.
** Trips in action. Loved living vicariously through Deb’s recent trips. Made you feel like you were there. Sort of….
** Let’s get an Anita Anwser Blog too! 🙂

DEB: Thanks for all the great suggestions you made. We want your feedback so we can bring you the types of writeups you’re interested in. For those of you who want an Anita Blog — well, you’ll have to email her directly…. she’s still pondering!

That’s it for Part I. Look for Part 2 soon.

Thanks again to everyone who filled out the survey!.

Deb